Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Excerpt taken from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II The End of the Story Part 2

Continues…

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration
are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has
been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by
particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Success, when it comes overnight, often departs with the dawn. I am prepared, now, for a lifetime of
happiness because I have finally recognized a powerful secret hidden in the years that treated me so
harshly. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery we make of what is
false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of
error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. The path I walked, often dampened by my tears, has not
been a wasted journey.

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

Thank you, God, for playing your game with me, today, and placing in my hands these precious scrolls. I
was at the lowest ebb of my life but I should have known it is at that moment that the tide always turns.
No longer will I look mournfully to the past. It will never return. Instead, with these scrolls, I will shape the
present because it is mine and I will go forth to meet the mysterious future without fear, without doubt,
without despair.

I was formed in the image of God. There is nothing I cannot achieve if I try.

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.


The First Vow of Success

Excerpt taken from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II The End of the Story

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